Collectables

Leading Forum’s (30/24/14.4% buyer’s premium inc VAT) March 27 auction of more books from the remarkable library of Norman Bobins was a complete copy of a German work following the course of the Danube from its source to the Black Sea.

Around 28 American-built Wurlitzers were originally transported to Britain from 1925 until just before the Second World War.

Although easily mistaken for railway or ship lamps, this pair of brass and iron lanterns were made for a road locomotive: the steam-driven traction engines that were some of the first powered vehicles to travel on Britain’s highways.

This aristocratic survivor from the ‘brass and glass’ era of microscope making, a version of Powell & Lealand’s famous ‘No 1’ compound monocular and binocular microscope, is dated 1898.

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The familiar heart symbol - that today is ‘read’ as love - made its first appearance as a rebus in the late Medieval era.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) took great delight in making cameo appearances in the films he produced and directed.

A collection of vintage comics has sold at auction in Lichfield for a total hammer price of £13,150.

“Our selection of Charley’s War artwork continues to attract new winning bidders”, says Malcolm Phillips.

Snappy the Happy Bubble Blowing Dragon is a scarce battery-operated toy made by Marx in Japan in the 1960s.

Archive offers glimpse into the golden age of small-scale publishing when tiny print runs were the norm

Canadian saleroom offers 180 lots from group amassed by a big fan of the German toymaker

On February 29 Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) of Birmingham held its inaugural Monies, Medals & Militaria sale.

This North West Mounted Police hat badge caught the attention when Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (25% buyer’s premium) of Exeter sold the remaining personal effects of Canadian soldier and policeman Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG CB MVO (1848-1919) on March 19.